Antoon Pardon wrote: > People are often enough not very exact in their communication and > that goes double for people who are new in a particular subject. > So I think it is entirely appropiate to think about the real question > the person is strugling with that hides between the question > actually asked. > > Yes sometimes those who try to guess the intentions of the OP > are going totally off in the wrong direction. But I have also > seen those people providing very helpfull information, while > those that would stick to the "actual" question didn'y provide > very usefull information.
And yet it's giving the *wrong* information if the person was asking exactly the question they intended to ask. If you think there is some ambiguity, you should *clarify* the question before answering. Answering a different question to the one that is asked just causes problems, and the kind of thread this has degenerated into. Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
